Anonymous wrote:I respect both your opinions, but 16 bit has an extremely valid point. If Live doesn't implement midi, which is a core staple of most DAW (and which almost all DAW users utilize at some point--it is not so 1980's, people use it everyday--I bet you use it to control Live), it may get passed by. 16 bit's point is that as other software catches up to Live (to some degree), if Live doesn't implement one of the most basic features of these other apps, there will be less and less of a reason to use Live for many people. Granted most of us using Live now are too enthralled to switch, but even so, I for one would like Live to grow in sales exponentially so they can hire more and more developers to fix bugs, some up with sweet new effects and ideas, and generally make the product better. All of us already owning Live don't stand to add too much to their resource pool over time--its the people out there who haven't bought it yet that hold the funds that will keep live going into the future. As other apps catch up, if Live doesn't implement midi, I have to think that sales of Live will go down some, which won't help development. I know a lot of people are opposed to midi in Live, but c'mon, don't spoil the party for the rest of us, and give Live's development crew some respect--have they ever rushed anything half-ass into the software--NO. Is everything they do nothing short of audio revolution--YES. Could they implement midi in a way that those that don't use it won't need to deal with it--yes. Besides, with how unique and inspired their program is, I bet they could come up with some midi implementation that might be so different and cool even the haters will want a piece of the action.
Ryan
Good points.
If ableton simply added midi functions that operate as the audio clips do then those that dont want to advance their creativeity or Ableton Live dont need to use it.
I see this rubbish from the naysayers all the time:
"use Bidule"
"use Reason"
"Theres a workaround"
"Blah Blah Blah"
"It says on the Box its for Live"
So lets understand this:
Most naysers use midi with Live through some sort opf convulted and creative reducing process. YET, they dont want midi in live????????
Oh I see.......Im on the wrong planet!!
EVERYBODY I know in this business who has used Live would like to see midi added.....NO LIE. I havent met a single person who has said they wouldnt want midi added. But everyone I know creates their own music as well as using Loops off the shelf.
The real reason for the nosayers midiless environment is in the above paragraph
My 1 and only concern with midi being added is that they F**k up its implementation. They have to keep it simple, and you cant get any simpler than the way the audio functions are implemented.
but I totally trust the Ableton programmers and I am certain they woul dget it right.
If they announced tomorrow they would never do this I would stop asking for midi and totally accept the decision. But this software is so good, I simply dont want to use anything else.
And your right. The naysayers are a vocal bunch in here but they should not be allowed to spoil it for the rest of us.
I mean I cant help being more creative than them.....
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